Sandy Travel Page 97 - An Invalid Source
Sandys Travel Page 97 is a page from the autobiographical book by English author, George Sandys (1577 – 1644). He was an English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York and was the uncle of Richard Lovelace(1618–1657), an English poet in the seventeenth century. In 1615, Sandys published an account of his travels in a book called "A Relation of a Journey".
George Sandys' travel writing, "A Relation of a Journey Begun An: Dom: 1610. Fovre Bookes. Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt; of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and Islands Adjoining" was first published in 1615 at London. This book was one of the most famous travel writings of that time and was read widely in England and appeared in nine editions. According to Jonathan Haynes, it is also "the most 'literary' of English Renaissance travel books".
In this book the writer gives many quotations from the classics like Virgil, Ovid, etc, giving a historical description of the places he visited together with a three-dimensional perspectives of the important classical buildings combining accurate geography with history of the place.
This book has been highlighted recently by some upcoming Sikh historians to support some of the historical events linked to Guru Nanak.
